At the heart of our original conversation for the memorial booth, was a question about what happens when death is not the end of a relationship. Does this make it more difficult for the memory and pain of loss to fade? Will the remaining living reject life and those alive around them, choosing instead to exist in a liminal space between death and life, neither able to go back in time nor to move forward?
Further, we are curious about what kind of avatar would be recreated based solely on digital remnants—pictures, videos, posts, text logs are certainly a part of a person in life, but they fall far short of encompassing the person in sum. Further, any sort of algorithmically-compiled avatar is subject to change and evolve as new data is fed into its database. At what point does an avatar stop reflecting the image and become a new entity? How does that evolution change the legal and ethical conversation?
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